Juventus Crowned Coppa Italia Champions
20 May, 2021
Coppa Italia Final
Result: Atalanta 1-2 Juventus
Date: 19 May 2021
Venue: Città del Tricolore
Juventus won the Coppa Italia with a good 2-1 victory over Atalanta in Stadio Citta del Tricolore on Wednesday night time.
Weston McKennie and Gianluigi Buffon came into the Juve starting line-up, while Atalanta made two changes with Matteo Pessina and Jose Luis Palomino coming into the side.
Atalanta came near to taking an early on lead in the 3rd minute. Duvan Zapata required on Matthijs de Ligt and reached the by-line before squaring back again for Jose Luis Palomino, but Gianluigi Buffon made the save with his legs from point-blank array.
It was a finish to end commence to the game, with the ball moving with rate over the field. Zapata in that case controlled with his back to goal, switched Giorgio Chiellini and struck the side-netting.
With 20 a few minutes gone, De Ligt enjoyed an unhealthy back-pass and Zapata pounced, but Buffon noticed the danger and rushed out to parry.
Remo Freuler's angled travel then flashed over the face of target and grazed the much post as Atalanta continued to up the momentum.
Juve took the business lead on the half-hour tag against the function of take up. Juan Cuadrado gained the ball back again, Weston McKennie pass on it for Dejan Kulusevski, whose left-foot curler bent beautifully in to the far corner.
Atalanta equalised found in the 42nd minute. Freuler dispossessed Rabiot and laid it again across to Ruslan Malinovskyi, who smacked it in to the roof of the net from the advantage of the area.
Gollini then made a huge save to keep the scores level. Federico Chiesa reached the by-series, pulled it back again for Kulusevski and Gollini palmed it off the brand at the near post.
Chiesa then hit the post after released by a Cristiano Ronaldo back-heel flick as his right-feet curler thumped the significantly post of an open up goal.
The Bianconeri took the lead in the 72nd minute. Chiesa trim inside from the remaining, played a one-two with Kulusevski and swept it past Gollini from eight yards with the within of his left boot.
Rafael Toloi was first sent off for Atalanta to include insult to injury while Juve claimed their initial important silverware of the growing season.
Source: www.soccerladuma.co.za